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‘Dark Knight’ Jumps to No. 4 Performing Film of All-Time on MovieTickets.com

(Los Angeles, CA - July 21, 2008) – MovieTickets.com (www.movietickets.com) sold more than one million tickets Thursday to Sunday, including more than 20 tickets per second during peak times, as “The Dark Knight” descended on the box office this weekend.

The world’s most powerful Internet ticketing service set four all-time records between Friday and Sunday, including single-day and opening-weekend records site-wide and for a single film.

“This film set a milestone for online ticketing,” said Joel Cohen, executive vice president and general manager for MovieTickets.com. “This is the third film in three years to break these coveted records. The fact we’re seeing these records fall so often really speaks to the increasing role of online movie ticketing.”

Behind the strength of its record-breaking weekend, “The Dark Knight” is currently the online ticketing provider’s No. 4 Performing Film of All-Time:

MovieTickets.com’s Top-5 Performing Films of All-Time:

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

The Dark Knight

The Passion of The Christ

MovieTickets.com conducted web-based exit interviews with more than 3000 moviegoers who saw “The Dark Knight” on opening night. Of those surveyed, an overwhelming 98 percent ranked the film “excellent” or “very good,” 1.5 percent ranked the film “good,” and 0.5 percent ranked it as “fair” or “poor.”

About MovieTickets.comMovieTickets.com (www.movietickets.com), the world’s most powerful Internet movie ticketing service, offers moviegoers a convenient way to buy movie tickets in advance. MovieTickets.com enables consumers to buy tickets online for movie screens across the United States, as well as in Canada at MovieTickets.ca; in the U.K. at MovieTickets.co.uk; in Ireland at MovieTickets.ie; from any Internet-enabled wireless device at mobile.movietickets.com; and from any phone at 877-789-MOVIE. Formed in 2000, MovieTickets.com is a joint venture between AMC Entertainment, Hollywood Media Corp. (NASDAQ: HOLL), National Amusements, Famous Players, Marcus Theatres (NYSE: MCS), Viacom (NYSE: VIA) and America Online, and leverages the collective theater chain expertise to deliver consumers a premium movie ticketing experience. Its elite collection of partner theaters consistently represents over 50 percent of the top 50 and over 50 percent of the top 100 grossing theaters in North America on any given weekend. The MovieTickets.com theater chain group, which includes 128 theater chains, is about five times the number of chains of its nearest competitor.